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Phil Steele ranks CU's schedule as the toughest in the country.

5 Pac teams before you get to the first Big Ten team (UM).

also, interesting that we're #1 without playing #4 Oregon State.
 
And CSU is #103. I'm sure they'll pack 'em into their high school stadium for that! Their non-conference schedule includes mighty Utah State, Northern Colorado, San Jose State, and UTEP. I hope UNC beats them!
 
JRK1212 said:
http://www.philsteele.com/Blogs/2011/Jul11/DBJuly18.html


National rankings amongst the Pac-12:

1. Colorado
4. Oregon St.
7. USC
8. Washington
16. Arizona
28. UCLA
33. Utah
39. Oregon
40. Arizona St.
43. California
46. Washington St.
49. Stanford
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I think it's hard to put a lot of stock in lists like this because they are based on pre-season polls for who the best teams are. I know you can say that Directional Michigan is not going to be a strong school but for teams who play a reasonable schedule, I just don't buy the rankings. Will Cal do their normal swan dive? Will a team like CU step up and break into the top 25? It's all meaningless at this point.

Honestly, I wish polls would be outlawed until 4 or 5 games into the season. Too much weight on who is ranked higher at the beginning of the season and not enough weight on actual season performance.
 
Tatanka™ said:
And CSU is #103. I'm sure they'll pack 'em into their high school stadium for that! Their non-conference schedule includes mighty Utah State, Northern Colorado, San Jose State, and UTEP. I hope UNC beats them!
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I'm seeing at least 3 losses in that bunch. Could be a bleak year in goat-ville.
 
I think everyone here has pretty much known all along that we had at least 1st, 2nd, or third toughest schedule before eee s pee in announced it.
 
JRK1212 said:
http://www.philsteele.com/Blogs/2011/Jul11/DBJuly18.html


National rankings amongst the Pac-12:

1. Colorado
4. Oregon St.
7. USC
8. Washington
16. Arizona
28. UCLA
33. Utah
39. Oregon
40. Arizona St.
43. California
46. Washington St.
49. Stanford
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How in the hell does Steele rate Boise's schedule as tougher than South Carolina, Georgia, Penn State, Kentucky, Michigan ST, and Iowa? I'd like to hear that explanation from Phil.
 
Of course this is all based on records from last year's teams meaning its accuracy can be taken with a grain of salt.
 
NW Buff said:
I think it's hard to put a lot of stock in lists like this because they are based on pre-season polls for who the best teams are. I know you can say that Directional Michigan is not going to be a strong school but for teams who play a reasonable schedule, I just don't buy the rankings. Will Cal do their normal swan dive? Will a team like CU step up and break into the top 25? It's all meaningless at this point.

Honestly, I wish polls would be outlawed until 4 or 5 games into the season. Too much weight on who is ranked higher at the beginning of the season and not enough weight on actual season performance.
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Did you read the Steele page? He's comparing the NCAA list, which is based on W-L records, against his power rankings weighted by the number of road games. So yeah, it's his opinion of "power" (but not a poll), but he does that to take out the obvious flaw of FCS W-L records skewing rankings.

BTW, I mostly agree with your point re: polls, it just doesn't apply to this analysis.
 
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